Head Start Success Story

I never imagined I would be citing a story from People magazine in ExchangeEveryDay, but here I go:

A story, "My American Dream: Great Success Against All Odds," in People (November 17, 2014) tells the story of Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation, who was one of the very first Head Start graduates:

"As a child, Darren Walker was curious about everything. 'I had a thirst,' he says, 'for what was beyond the horizon.' But for a boy born into poverty in rural Louisiana and raised by a single mother in the 1960s in Texas, the odds of soaring beyond the horizon were slim. That all changed one afternoon in 1965 when a woman walked up the dirt road to his shotgun house and asked his mother... if she wanted to enroll him in a new education program for underprivileged kids called Head Start. 'I felt special,' says Walker of attending those classes, 'like I was being given a window into a world beyond my immediate circumstances.'"

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